FOUR OAKS—The West Brunswick High School volleyball season ended Saturday in a 17-25, 25-19, 24-26, 30-28, 12-15 loss at South Johnston in the first round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association Class 3A playoffs.

South Johnston failed on four match points to win the fourth set, which enabled West to tie the match 2-2. West then took an 11-4 lead in the tiebreaker before losing 12-15.

West ends its season 14-7. South Johnston improves to 22-5.

For South Johnston coach Matthew Adams, the fourth-set loss was crushing.

Hill has left East Carolina University, where he was a student, and is back in Shallotte, considering what to do next.

“It just was not working at ECU,” said Jimmy Fletcher, Hill’s football coach at West Brunswick High School. “East Carolina was very gracious in all the things that they did for him. But for whatever reason, it just did not work.”

Six North Brunswick High School students have been arrested in connection with vandalism that occurred at South Brunswick High School.

According to information provided by the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office, South Brunswick school officials contacted Cpl. Larry Auman, school resource officer, at 9 a.m. Friday in regards to vandalism at the school's football stadium.

SUNSET BEACH—Recent negotiations by town council regarding possible purchase of a multi-million-dollar waterway site for a future park have been unsuccessful, according to town administrator Gary Parker.

Parker wrote in an e-mail to the Beacon on Thursday that the town and Tidal Ventures, owner of the 5.22-acre Intracoastal Waterway site bearing a previous price tag of $3.75 million, “have been unable to reach an agreement on the purchase of the property.

“I believe the owners are moving ahead with plans of their own,” Parker wrote.

On June 8, Gus Mast, a resident of Brick Landing, scored a hole-in-on on the 14th hole at Brierwood. He was playing the gold tees at 150 yards and used a 7- wood.

“The pin was behind the bunker and I usually play to the left to avoid it, but this time I decided to go for it,” he said. “It sailed over the trap and into the cup. The best part was, our group had a closest-to-the-pin contest on that hole, so I was able to put the marker in the hole.”

The Carolina Shores Niners hosted a “Komen for the Cure” golf tournament and luncheon Sept. 30 and Oct. 7. The tournament and luncheon raised money for breast cancer awareness and cancer research and was open to all women golfers. The luncheon was on Sept. 30 and the golf was moved to Oct 7. The total donation to Komen was $970.

For months this has been the regimen for each competitive archery student on The Roger Bacon Academy’s archery team. And that practice has paid off big time on a global scale at the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) World Tournament.